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Yes, I was sure that Joseph Ritson was going to show up from the eighteenth century! There are echoes of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry controversies in these fascinating, often reasonable concerns voiced about transcribing an oral art form, but what's strange and new are the charges about not citing crowd-sourced Internet transcriptions of the lyrics or work done by the undergraduate research assistants.

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I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.